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by j-m-o 4809 days ago
The term you're looking for is 'ring-back', and it's original use seems to have gone the way of the do-do in North America.

Most of the PBX/VoIP systems I've worked on (North and South America) provide one arbitrarily to give the caller the warm and fuzzies, regardless of what's actually happening to that call leg.

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And as a mobile subscriber you can usually pay for a custom "ring-back" tone. So you can bother anyone who calls you with the latest Rihanna hit.